Silke Tesch (born 5 July 1958 in
Dautphetal-Holzhausen) is a German politician and a former member of the
Parliament of Hesse for the
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany.
Saskia Esken has been the ...
(SPD).
On 5 April 2003, she was elected to the Parliament of Hesse. She was a member of the
Bundesversammlung in 2004.
She was reelected to Parliament in the
2008 Hesse state election
The 2008 Hessian state election was held on 27 January 2008 to elect the members of the Landtag of Hesse. The incumbent Christian Democratic Union (CDU) government led by Minister-President Roland Koch lost its majority. The result of the election ...
. On 3 November 2008, however, she declared, together with fellow SPD MPs
Carmen Everts,
Jürgen Walter and
Dagmar Metzger, that she would not support
Andrea Ypsilanti
Andrea Ypsilanti (' Dill; born 8 April 1957) is a German politician.
Political career
Ypsilanti was a member of the Hesse, Hessian ''Landtag'' (parliament) and served as chairperson of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic ...
as Prime Minister of Hesse, in a planned election. Ypsilanti, chair of SPD in Hesse, was supposed to form a government with support of the leftist extremist (according to the
Verfassungsschutz
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)
Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Hessen: Die Linke
party Die Linke
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, the successor of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (german: Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, ; SED, ), often known in English as the East German Communist Party, was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East German ...
(SED). The SPD party had, before the election, vowed not under any circumstances to cooperate with Die Linke.
Without the support of her party, Silke Tesch could not run for another term as a member of parliament in the 2009 election.
References
External links
Silke Tesch
Biography
''Parliament of Hesse''
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Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians
Members of the Landtag of Hesse
People from Marburg-Biedenkopf
1958 births
Living people
Women members of State Parliaments in Germany
21st-century German women politicians